Bacterial pituitary abscess: An unusual cause of panhypopituitarism

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 424-428

  Hernández, Irma ^a   Garcia, Liliana ^a   Guinto, Gerardo ^a   Cabrera, Lourdes ^a   Mercado, Moisés ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE ESPECIALIDADES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DESMOPRESSIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOCORTISOLISM; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MENINX; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM GRANULOSUM; SELLA TURCICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0036857525     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.8.6.424     Document Type: Article

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